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This document summarizes research on dative/accusative variation in Icelandic. It discusses variation between dative and accusative case for both subject and object experiencers. For subjects, known as "Dative Substitution," dative replaces accusative. For objects with certain motion verbs (called "football verbs"), both dative and accusative variants are found. The variation may reflect a dual status of the object as patient and non-patient in a two-subevent structure. Verb classes that typically take dati

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Laurynas Sultan

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